12.5% —
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 19.8%
- 2021: 12.5%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Sailors Hill · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Sailors Hill
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Only 12.5% of people in Sailors Hill were born overseas, which is far below the national figure. This makes the area much less diverse in birthplace than most of Victoria and Australia. Most residents identify with English and Australian roots.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English ancestry is the most common at 52.8%, followed by Australian at 41.7%. Scottish and Irish backgrounds are also present, making up 12.5% and 6.9% of the population respectively.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
A vast majority of residents were born in Australia, accounting for 83.3% of the population. This explains why the overseas-born population is far below the 30% seen across Victoria.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Ancestry & Birthplace in Sailors Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22225/sailors-hill/topic/ancestry-heritage